The Big Ten

Author : Winton U Solberg
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252050258
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creating the Big Ten written by Winton U Solberg and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big Ten football fans pack gridiron cathedrals that hold up to 100,000 spectators. The conference's fourteen member schools share a broadcast network and a 2016 media deal worth $2.64 billion. This cultural and financial colossus grew out of a modest 1895 meeting that focused on football's brutality and encroaching professionalism in the game. Winton U. Solberg explores the relationship between higher education and collegiate football in the Big Ten's first fifty years. This formative era saw debates over eligibility and amateurism roil the sport. In particular, faculty concerned with academics clashed with coaches, university presidents, and others who played to win. Solberg follows the conference's successful early efforts to put the best interests of institutions and athletes first. Yet, as he shows, commercial concerns undid such work after World War I as sports increasingly eclipsed academics. By the 1940s, the Big Ten's impact on American sports was undeniable. It had shaped the development of intercollegiate athletics and college football nationwide while serving as a model for other athletic conferences.

Author : David Young
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615584195
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arrogance and Scheming in the Big Ten written by David Young and published by . This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While investigating how the current Big Ten Conference came to include Michigan State and not other suitors including Pittsburgh and Nebraska, this work traces the sometimes shadowy history of college football. It's a story of intrigue, lying, timing, friendships made and broken along with costly arousing outbursts, all based on extensive and detailed research.David Young is a practicing physician in Holland, Michigan. He grew up in East Lansing. While attending Notre Dame in the mid 1970s, his next door neighbor, Jack Breslin, shared a story with him about the special relationship between Michigan State and the University of Notre Dame. The 1946 Spartan graduate and executive vice president of MSU noted that the Irish administration had played a prominent role in Michigan State College's evolution into a major land-grant research institution. It all had to do with aiding a Spartan application for membership in the "Western Conference" during the late 1940s. Mr. Breslin also offered comment on the University of Michigan's role in that transition. Unfortunately, while walking back to the Yardboy to finish mowing his lawn, those words were muffled by the idling engine. "And if Michigan had its way...."Three decades later, Dr. Young decided to investigate what his alma mater did to assist Michigan State's grand vision as crafted by a far-sighted president. He also wanted to find out what Breslin intended to say about the Wolverine's involvement in the application process. What he discovered, hidden within the stacks of 13 university archives, has now dispelled a popular myth. In its place, the amateur historian reveals the true story--an extensively cited account of John Hannah's quest for membership in the Big Nine and Michigan Law Professor Ralph Aigler's obsession with impeding that relentless pursuit. Intertwined in the complex tale are the fascinating roles played by two commissioners as well as various leaders at Minnesota, Ohio State, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Northwestern, Purdue, Pittsburgh and the University of Chicago.Though this account focuses on a unique intrastate rivalry, the book remains a must read for anyone interested in the evolution of the modern game of college football. And for alumni/fans of the many schools involved with either aiding or hindering Hannah's quest, the story will explore what now appears to be a very controversial decision in May of 1949 to accept Michigan State College into the Western Conference.

Author : Bob Wood
Publisher : Quill
ISBN 13 : 9780688100018
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Big Ten Country written by Bob Wood and published by Quill. This book was released on 1990 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Todd Mishler
Publisher : Big Earth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781931599955
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood, Sweat, and Cheers written by Todd Mishler and published by Big Earth Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For pure spectacle, passion and tradition, nothing in sports beats a college football rivalry--and the Big Ten has some of the best. Whether it's Wisconsin and Minnesota renewing thier ancient battle for Paul Bunyan's Axe, or Ohio State and Michigan scrapping for conference dominance, you'll discover the history, ritual, and color of some of football's oldest and greatest blood feuds.

Author : Gregory Richards
Publisher : Crescent
ISBN 13 : 9780517633526
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Big Ten Football written by Gregory Richards and published by Crescent. This book was released on 1987 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marina N. Haan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Graffiti in the Big Ten written by Marina N. Haan and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William B. Bradshaw
Publisher : BookPros, LLC
ISBN 13 : 098423585X
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Big Ten of Grammar written by William B. Bradshaw and published by BookPros, LLC. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever hesitated when choosing between I or me? Have you had trouble figuring out tricky pronouns like who or whom? What about those always-troublesome commas-do they go before or after the quotation marks? If you're anything like the rest of us, you struggle with these age-old grammatical issues. In this practical and easy-to-understand handbook, Dr. William B. Bradshaw identifies the ten most common errors in English grammar and helps you to recognize and correct these mistakes, enabling you to write and speak with greater clarity in your personal and professional life. The Big Ten of Grammar is the perfect guide for students, teachers, and professionals to use in brushing up on their grammar.

Author : Gabriel Kaufman
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9781404213838
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Basketball in the Big Ten Conference written by Gabriel Kaufman and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2008-01-15 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the history, key people, teams, important games, and mascots of the Big Ten Conference of NCAA basketball.

Author : Brian Brennt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781934290613
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Big 10 Discipleship written by Brian Brennt and published by . This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John U. Bacon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476706441
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fourth and Long written by John U. Bacon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author and Michigan football expert John Back, an analysis of the state of college football: Why we love the game, what is at risk, and the fight to save it. In search of the sport’s old ideals amid the roaring flood of hypocrisy and greed, bestselling author John U. Bacon embedded himself in four college football programs—Penn State, Ohio State, Michigan, and Northwestern—and captured the oldest, biggest, most storied league, the Big Ten, at its tipping point. He sat in as coaches dissected game film, he ate dinner at training tables, and he listened in locker rooms. He talked with tailgating fans and college presidents, and he spent months in the company of the gifted young athletes who play the game. Fourth and Long reveals intimate scenes behind closed doors, from a team’s angry face-off with their athletic director to a defensive lineman acing his master’s exams in theoretical math. It captures the private moment when coach Urban Meyer earned the devotion of Ohio State’s Buckeyes on their way to a perfect season. It shows Michigan’s athletic department endangering the very traditions that distinguish the college game from all others. And it re-creates the euphoria of the Northwestern Wildcats winning their first bowl game in decades. Most unforgettably, Fourth and Long finds what the national media missed in the ugly aftermath of Penn State’s tragic scandal: the unheralded story of players who joined forces with Coach Bill O’Brien to save the university’s treasured program—and with it, a piece of the game’s soul. This is the work of a writer in love with an old game—a game he sees at the precipice. Bacon’s deep knowledge of sports history and his sensitivity to the tribal subcultures of the college game power this elegy to a beloved and endangered American institution.